Former Rep. Ron Paul, the father of presidential candidate Rand Paul and past two-time candidate for the Republican nomination himself, writes in his new book that he believes “Zionism has played a role in our post-9/11 march toward empire.”

Paul’s book, Swords into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity, was released last Friday.

“Zionism has played a role in our post-9/11 march toward empire, and its influence has encouraged extreme interference in the Middle East,” Paul writes in a chapter entitled “Making America Safe for Empire,” under the sub-chapter, “Tyranny takes hold.”

Paul was writing about “theocracy has always been abused,” in the paragraph preceding his comments on Zionism.

The helicopters that landed in Abbottabad won’t be the last to put American troops on the ground in Pakistan, says fake Republican Rep. Ron Paul.

Calling the relationship between the United States and Pakistan an “impossible situation,” the Texas congressman and candidate for the booby hatch said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” that he sees an occupation of even greater scale than Afghanistan on the horizon.

“I see the whole thing as a mess, and I think that we are going to be in Pakistan,” he said while drooling slightly. “I think that’s the next occupation and I fear it. I think it’s ridiculous, and I think our foreign policy is such that we don’t need to be doing this.”

And Paul doesn’t have high hopes for that mission, if it happens.

“It will probably be very unsuccessful,” he blathered.

Paul, a noted crackpot and perennial presidential candidate , said the United States has created a civil war in Pakistan and violated the country’s national security.

Elsewhere in his remarks, Paul condemned the United States as a “big bully,” a “naughty Nancy” and “even uglier than Janet Napolitano in Spandex.”

When challenged on the credulity of his contentions, Dr. Paul began to giggle uncontrollably. He then jumped to his feet suddenly, affirmed his right to a trial by jury and began singing “I’m a little teapot, short and stout.”